Libertarians are rightly skeptical of military interventions. A simple reason is that military interventions tend to do more harm than good. This simple reason was enough to justify opposition to the war in Iraq. Saddam Hussein was horrible, but the prospects of instability and civil war were always high.

This Slate article has been making the rounds. It argues that campus speech codes are defensible in large part because college kids really are still kids, in a way. They have bad impulse control, underdeveloped brains, and thus need paternalism for their own protection.

More than 100 people have now been infected with measles as a result of a multi-state outbreak linked to Disneyland. Public officials have been eager to respond, and now it seems like everyone’s talking about compulsory vaccination, and it’s becoming a